Ford The Origins of Criticism

Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece
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E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Andrew Ford is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He is the author of Homer: The Poetry of the Past and of numerous articles on Greek literature and literary history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ford, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Antike Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE ix

ABBREVIATIONS xiii

INTRODUCTION

Defining Criticism from Homer to Aristotle 1

PART I ARCHAIC ROOTS OF CLASSICAL AESTHETICS 23

ONE

Table Talkand Symposium 25

TWO

Xenophanes and the "Ancient Quarrel" 46

THREE

Allegory and the Traditions of Epic Interpretation 67

PART II: THE INVENTION OF POETRY 91

FOUR

Song and Artifact: Simonidean Monuments 93

FIVE

Singer and Craftsman in Pindar and Bacchylides 113

SIX

The Origin of the Word "Poet" 131

PART III: TOWARD A THEORY OF POETRY 159

SEVEN

Materialist Poetics: Democritus and Gorgias 161

EIGHT

Literary Culture and Democracy: Poets and Teachers in Classical Athens 188

NINE

Literary Culture in Plato's Republic:The Sound of Ideology 209

PART IV LITERARY THEORY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY 227

TEN

The Invention of Literature: Theories of Prose and the Theory of Poetry 229

ELEVEN

Laws of Poetry: Genre and the Literary System 250

TWELVE

The Rise of the Critic: Poetic Contests from Homer to Aristotle 272

EPILOGUE 294

BIBLIOGRAPHY 297

INDEX OF PASSAGES ISCUSSED 331

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Ford is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He is the author of Homer: The Poetry of the Past and of numerous articles on Greek literature and literary history.